[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tCrFFUSqh4[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Fw2NzMFCE[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx2k8jrCOUU[/video]

i actually really like the cruisin games (i only played them recently via an emulator). i remember the slating they got in reviews. i think they are great fun to play.i don’t think they deserve the slating they got tbh.

as for doom on the 3d0,it is by far the worst version of doom ever made,BUT it was my first experience of doom ever and thus will hold a special place in my heart (it also has the best music of any doom bar the playstation and n64 ambient soundcapes.

I spent *far* too long playing Turbo Esprit on the Spectrum in the 80s. Never quite understood what the point of the game was, but boy did I enjoy driving around!

[video]https://youtu.be/OtHQNzPugdA?t=93[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71IdryupIak[/video]

Soldiers at War. It was slagged off but I still play it.

Great fun, turn based strategy.

Skool daze for the c64 was terrible but very addictive too

Chuckie Egg

I liked Defender for the Atari 2600.
It was slated, but not having much experience of the original I loved it.

Pele’s Superstar Soccer really was crap though.

not sure if it was considered crap but i totally loved ‘riven’.
was never really into computer games but i loved its slow and ambient lack of action.

Hogs of War.

Test Match Cricket for the mighty ZX Spectrum.

Used to play full test matches, which took nearly as long as the real thing.

Oh, and this ear-melting bastard.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgfrGxCBSvM[/video]

star trek on the commodor pet

Test Match Cricket for the mighty ZX Spectrum.

Yep. Inexplicably that never got old for me either! 😀

Roland in the Caves – Amstrad special.

I knew no different, I was young and naïve

Raid over Moscow.

Sega rally , must have spent a fortune on it .

Objection! Leisure Suit Larry isn’t crap, it’s a stone cold classic.

Frak on the BBC

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2UEWPrh4eY[/video]

Frak on the BBC

And so was that.

“Crap” and “old” aren’t synonyms.

Chaos for the Spectrum, wizard and a random set of speels, to try and create real or illusion creatures to defeat other wizards (up to 8 AI or human wizards).

The original was all about the gameplay and catching your mates cheating, simple but good fun game IMO.

Freeware variant of old game http://www.vectorlight.net/games/chaos-tournament

Modern take of game with nice graphics http://store.steampowered.com/app/319050/

Chuckie egg, skool days and hogs of war were great games! Only slightly crappy game I can think of that I loved was rampage.

I used to waste hours and hours on this – Herzog Zwei…

[video]https://youtu.be/3EO53h7nWEU[/video]

Was obsessed with Star Raiders (Atari 400/800) as a young teen. It captivated me completely. Vivid imagination. Even thought the membrane keyboard was super-futuristic, almost like I was in charge of a real Star Destroyer in, oh, 2008 or somesuch unimaginable future date)

[video]http://youtu.be/3_VDM8nC9sM[/video]

Objection! Leisure Suit Larry isn’t crap, it’s a stone cold classic.

Clearly a man of taste. I also quite liked Space Quest with the Latex Babes of Estros. Not to mention
Leather Goddesses of Phobos.

I actually completed LGoP. Sod of a game (and in typical Infocom style, impossible without the map and assorted gubbins that came with the game).

Spider-Man on the Atari 2600-

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZzGaFiyezY[/video]

BMX Racers on the Spectrum 48K+ (placcy keys!)-

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynSxphyyW3c&nohtml5=False[/video]

Bugger, I’m old.

Duke Nukem Forever. Not as bad as everyone made out.

The Horace series on the spectrum, particularly Horace and the Spiders.

I stopped playing games mid 90s ,but I remember Downhill Dominator/ion? was both ace and a bit rubbish at the same time..

Erm…think it was called Zaxxon…absolutely loved it.

And an arcade (y’know…twenty pence in a slot) game called Mad Planets.

Chaos is a proper classic for face to face multiplayer.

Pastfinder on my Atari 800XL. Spin, shoot and jump ad infinitum… Strangely hypnotic and addictive.

[video]http://youtu.be/T7L7vlnlIsM[/video]

Choplifter, and then hours lost to Zork. Remember being cr@p at chuckie egg after pub closing time back at a mate’s place. At the arcade, it was Pac-man and memorising the routes to make 10p last an hour.

I can’t believe that somebody is claiming that the Horace games were crap! Horace Goes Skiing was a classic!

I really enjoyed Street Fighter II on the Amiga, despite the fact it was a terrible conversion, largely down to the controls (single button instead of six). Playing Championship Edition on the Megadrive was a revelation though!

The Dynasty Warrior games often get a critical panning, but I love ’em, especially 4.

Well yes they were cool but they were also pretty crap with hindsight!

Yeah trying to get Horace across the road to the ski slopes and then down was great fun…

Disco Dan, punchy. Games that came with the spectrum! Surprisingly addictive.

[video]https://youtu.be/QIxGW4Ns1UI[/video]

I actually completed LGoP.

Chapeau. I would give it another go if I had something to stick the 3.5 inch disk into.

… Downhill Dominator/ion? was both ace and a bit rubbish at the same time..

I got a PS2 last year. It exists in our house for one ^game^ only. And it is not ‘a bit rubbish’ at all! It is mightily cheesy and all the better for it IMO. Find self playing different characters just to hear the accents and choice taunts. Dammit, tomorrow night is DD night now. Sasquatch hunting on the Karpiel, jumpers for goalposts. *sigh*

I would give it another go if I had something to stick the 3.5 inch disk into.

The beauty of the Infocom games is, they separated out the game file (story.dat) and engine. So all you need is a “Z-interpreter” for your platform and you can run the original game on anything. Frotz is a well-known PC Z-interpreter, Git is an expansion on it, or you can try a multi-platform interpreter like Gargoyle, and I have the story.dat somewhere if you do want to try again.

you all need to go to Bury Arcade club – its awesome.
£10 entry then everything on free play. Have lost track of a few Saturdays in there!
http://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/games